Christian History Magazine—Issue 41: The American Puritans

Puritanism, as Sydney Ahlstrom wrote, “is an intellectual tradition of great profundity.” The Puritans were people on a mission: to create a pure church and a thoroughly Christian society. Often mislabeled as cold and devoid of happiness, true Puritans sought to live life joyfully through work and play, committing all things to the glory of God. One sixteenth-century tract even promotes them as “the hotter sort of Protestants.” Open this issue of Christian History & Biography to learn the many great qualities of an underappreciated denomination.